Kamrul Islam

Kamrul Islam is a Bangladeshi physician and surgeon. He is known as a kidney transplant surgeon in Bangladesh and received the Independence Award in 2022 for his contributions to medical science.

Biography Kamrul Islam’s father, Aminul Islam, was an agronomist at the Pabna Sugarcane Research Centre of the Bangladesh Sugarcrop Research Institute. His mother, Rahima Khatun, was a professor. He is the second of four siblings.

Career In 1993, Kamrul Islam joined the health cadre through BCS. He also served as an assistant professor at the National Institute of Kidney Diseases & Urology Hospital.

In 2007, he successfully performed a kidney transplant for the first time. In 2011, he resigned from government service and later established his own institution. In 2014, he founded the Centre for Kidney Diseases and Urology Hospital. During the COVID-19 pandemic, when many hospitals suspended surgeries, his institution performed 255 kidney transplants. The average cost of a transplant at his hospital is reported to be 210,000 taka, with a success rate of about 95 percent.